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Britz Family Boosts Lung Research at UCSF Fresno with $250,000 Gift

FRESNO – David and Marilyn Britz of Fresno recently provided a $250,000 gift to the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program to be used by faculty physicians at UCSF’s campus in Fresno who are conducting research into the causes, prevention and treatment of lung diseases.

UCSF Fresno Doctors Talk to Sixth‐Graders About Health Careers and Overcoming Obstacles to Accomplish Goals

WHO: Faculty physicians and medical residents from the UCSF Fresno Family and Community Medicine Residency Program will talk to more than 100 sixth‐grade students about health careers and resiliency.

UCSF Fresno Presents 12th Annual Cardiology in the Valley Symposium

FRESNO –Coronary heart disease is the number one cause of death in California and the San Joaquin Valley has some of the highest rates of heart disease in the state. Heart failure, often resulting from coronary artery disease, significantly contributes to the death rate. UCSF Fresno’s Department of...

UCSF Fresno Doctors Academy Programs Celebrate Graduating Students

All students will attend colleges or universities in the fall of 2017. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty member gives scholarships to Selma program

UCSF Fresno Names Ivan Albert Gomez, MD, as Chief of Family and Community Medicine

FRESNO – After a nationwide search, UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program recently announced the appointment of Ivan Albert Gomez, MD, FAAFP, as Chief of Family and Community Medicine and Vice‐Chair of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF. As chief, Dr. Gomez provides visionary leadership for the...

Medical Students with Valley Ties Get Set for Clinical Training at UCSF Fresno

Group includes students from Fresno, Modesto and Visalia and graduates from the UCSF Fresno Sunnyside High School Doctors Academy and UC Merced

UCSF Fresno Names Jim Comes, MD, as Chief of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Comes also appointed the Gene W. Kallsen, MD, Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine

UCSF Fresno-CRMC Partnership Offers Life-Saving Technology

Technology known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO, coupled with a special, high level care medical team, is giving patients with life threatening respiratory or cardiac failure new hope for life. The team launched at CRMC last August. Timothy Evans, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at...

UCSF Fresno Discusses Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change at Second Annual Symposium

FRESNO – Air pollution and climate change are closely related topics. Both present serious health implications, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley where air is some of the most polluted in the United States and significant health disparities exist.

UCSF Fresno Wraps Up Successful Recruitment Period

Residency programs fill 100 percent of available positions for seven years in a row

In Memory of Dr. Joan Voris

It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Joan Voris, MD, former Associate Dean for UCSF Fresno. Dr. Voris spent her entire career at UCSF Fresno as a practicing pediatrician, Director of the Ambulatory Clinics and Associate Dean. She was the longest serving Associate Dean in Fresno history...

Fresno’s Newest Food and Beverage Tasting Event Benefits UCSF Fresno

FRESNO – Las Vegas fun is coming to Fresno! Sip & Savor “Las Vegas Style” will be held on Saturday, March 18 from 6:30 to 11 pm at the Save Mart Center at 2650 E. Shaw Ave. on the Fresno State campus. Sip & Savor is the Valley’s newest food and beverage tasting event benefiting the UCSF...

UCSF Fresno Holds Free Heart Fair For Women in Honor of American Heart Month

FRESNO – February is American Heart Month and an ideal time to make changes to improve one’s heart health. To help educate women of all ages on heart health, UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program, along with Central California Faculty Medical Group and Community Regional Medical Center, will hold a...

Graduate from the Summer Biomedical Internship Program Returns 17 Years Later to Fill Key Role at UCSF Fresno

FRESNO – In 1999, Robin L. Whitney, PhD, RN, participated in a program, sparking an interest in public health that would guide her educational and career goals. The program was the UCSF Fresno Summer Biomedical Research Internship Program (SBI). As an Edison High School student, she worked under...

Inaugural Central California O2 Breathe Walk to Increase Awareness of Little Known Lung Disease Set for Saturday

FRESNO - The Pulmonary Hypertension Association will hold its first O2 Breathe Walk on Saturday, Oct. 29 at Railroad Park, 399 W. Alluvial in Clovis. Registration begins at 9 a.m. The opening ceremony takes place at 10 a.m. and the walk begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by the closing ceremony at 11:...

UCSF Fresno Associate Dean Michael W. Peterson, MD, Awarded Mastership in American College of Physicians

FRESNO – Michael W. Peterson, MD, associate dean at UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program, has been awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists.

New Training Programs Available

UCSF Fresno recently launched two new training programs, a Hematology/Oncology Fellowship in Internal Medicine and an Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant Residency Program. The Hematology/ Oncology Fellowship will enhance cancer care and reduce the need for patients to travel outside the Valley...

University of California and Fresno State Team Up to Help Aspiring Doctors, Health Professionals and Researchers

WHO: UCSF Fresno, UC Merced, Fresno State, Central Valley Higher Education Consortium, CalViva Health, California Health Sciences University and many other partners are teaming up for the second Reaching Out to Aspiring Doctors (ROAD) for the San Joaquin Valley conference. This year’s conference...

UCSF Fresno Launches Two New Training Programs

Programs include Hematology/Oncology Fellowship and Physician Assistant Emergency Medicine Residency

UCSF Fresno Offers Mini Medical School for the Public

WHO: The Academic Senate at UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program will present a series of health-related lectures for the community. WHAT: The public is invited to hear and ask questions of leading experts in medicine and  health sciences at the fifth annual “Mini-Med School 101,” a series of...

UCSF Fresno Selects High School Students to Research Valley Health Issues This Summer

New Physicians Start Training at UCSF Fresno with Clinical Skills Bootcamp

WHO: More than 80 new physicians, who start medical residency training at UCSF Fresno Medical Education program this month, will begin with a clinical skills orientation.

Medical Students Reach Out to Create a Healthier Valley

UCSF Fresno to graduate more than 100 physicians

About 40 percent are staying in the San Joaquin Valley

Conference Offers Information and Assistance in Spanish for People Caring for Loved Ones with Alzheimer’s

FRESNO – Latinos are greatly impacted by Alzheimer’s disease. For example, Latinos are 1 ½ times more likely than non-Latinos to have Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and they are usually diagnosed during later stages, which greatly impacts those living with the disease, their caregivers and...